After the little discussion 2 weeks ago about the packaging of dock apps, I come with a proposal. Granularity is good. Until now, all dock apps have been packaged separately to achieve best granularity. However, this is growing to an impressive number of packages, which both bloats the archive and lacks of convenience for users. Furthermore, toy/funny dockapps are often not packaged, as they are often very simple and qualified as "useless crap" on this list. To solve this, an approach similar to that of the gnome-applets package is proposed, except that, due to the number of dockapps that can be included, there would be several packages. To put in these bundles, I have selected a number of dockapps, with these conditions : 1) Being "popular" : I considered dock apps that are already in the archive, dock apps that were the most downloaded on http://dockapps.org/, and also dockapps that I would like to package ;) Of course, the selection is very subjective, and this is the right place to flame me if you think some choices are inappropriate, or if you would like to see other dockapps in these bundles. 2) Having no dependencies, other than xlibs and libdockapp. Note that, as many dockapps not using libdockapp share a file named wmgeneral.c, I will try to make a library with it (I say "try", because many dockapps use different versions of this file, with sometimes some incompatible changes). 3) Not being actively maintained upstream. This is the case of most of dockapps, as they represent a small amount of code and are based on stable APIs. The proposed packages include many of the dockapps already in the archive. Of course, if the current maintainer of a dockapp package doesn't want me to bundle the dockapp, I will skip it, and put it in the Recommends field instead. So, here are the bundle propositions. I have put a * after dockapps already packaged. - dockapps-clocks : pclock* wmbeats wmcalclock* wmclock* wmdate* wmitime* wmtz* - dockapps-monitor : asmon* wmavgload* wmcpu* wmcpuload* wmcube* wmfire* wmfsm* wmload* wmmemload* wmmemmon* wmsmpmon* wmsysmon* wmtop* - dockapps-net : wmail (this is NOT wmmail) wmifinfo* wmifs* wminet* wmisdn wmisdncid wmmultipop3 wmnd* wmymail wmnet* wmnetselect* wmpload* (if I can get rid of the dependency on ppp) wmppp.app* wmwave* xlassie* - dockapps-sound : ascd* mixer.app* volume.app* wmcdplay* wmix* wmmixer* wmmp3 (will need a wrapper to test if mpg123 is installed) wmrack* wmradio wmrecord wmscope* wmsmixer wmtune (if it ever works - this dockapp is slightly old and I cannot test it without a radio card) - dockapps-toys : wmbio* wmeyes wmfirew wmflame wmfortune (will need a wrapper to test if fortune is installed) wmjulia wmmand* wmmatrix* wmmoonclock* wmomikuzi wmpuzzle* wmtictactoe* wmtetris - dockapps-utils : nonlock* ticker.app* temperature.app washerdryer wmappl wmbutton* wmcalc* wmcb* wmcp wmfrog wmlpq wmmount* wmnetscapekiller* wmpinboard* wmplot wmswallow wmwork* wmxres* wmsetimon* Considering dockapps with binary sizes in the 20-100KB range, this should make packages of accpetable sizes. There could be two other bundles, with more dependencies, but I don't know if it's worth the deal : - dockapps-power : wmab wmacpi* wmapm* wmbattery* xbatt* - dockapps-xmms : wmalbum wmusic* wmxmms-spectrum* xmms-wmdiscotux* Finally, two meta-packages : - dockapps, which would depend on all the above - dockapps-extra, which would depend on dockapps + almost all dockapps that are packaged separately. Comments are welcome. Greetings, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette /\./\ : :' : josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org `. `' joss@debian.org `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom
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